Medicinal Cannabis Trials
Epilepsy Queensland is collecting contact details from Queenslanders who want to be kept up-to-date on the Medicinal Cannabis Trials. We are not conducting the trials but want to play a supportive role for families and will attempt to get information to you as it comes to hand. (Please click here to complete the brief survey).

Queensland Government gives green light to establish medicinal cannabis trial
On Sunday 19 April Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced that Queensland will launch its own medicinal cannabis trial in conjunction with New South Wales and Victoria (Click here to read Media Release).

We congratulate the parents of children with difficult to treat epilepsy who have persistently worked so hard to advocate for changes that would allow families to use medicinal cannabis.

Here’s Hazel’s story about why this announcement is such a milestone for families with children with refractory epilepsy, who’ve unsuccessfully tried every possible medication and for whom other treatments are just not an option - Thank you Hazel. (Click here to read Hazel's story).

This story appeared in our recent Livewires newsletter (Volume 2, 2015).

Medicinal cannabis isn’t suitable for all people with epilepsy. If you’d like to find out more, please contact our Client Services team on 3435 5000 or 1300 852 852 or email services@epilepsyqueensland.com.au.